Word: hazing
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...There's a bright golden haze on the meadow...
...northwest of Bermuda. In the lead was Royono, a big yawl from the Great Lakes, practically becalmed. Henry Taylor's big yawl, which couldn't be found at all, was 45 miles due west of Bermuda. Just before sunset, Taylor's oldest son peered through the haze and said: "That looks like Gibbs Hill Lighthouse." It was. As darkness settled down that night, Baruna got her breeze. It was not much more than a breath, but it pushed her slowly through the darkness. By coming in Bermuda's back door before dawn, Baruna had done...
...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
There, six weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...
Characteristically, Brooks is far more successful in bringing to life Whitman's optimistic, spacious, fervent democratic faith than Melville's tortured, Jacob-like wrestling with his own soul. He casts a wishful haze over mid-19th Century American life...